Study Reveals that Meditation May Increase Brain-Boosting Gray Matter

If you were worried the magic of meditating was all in your head, you were right.

A new study, published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, is the first to document that "interventions that incorporate training in mindfulness" are associated with changes in the brain's gray matter in the areas that control learning, memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing and perspective taking. The study involved volunteers who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks.